Heavy issues are on the table

During April, the Grain SA leadership spent a few days aside to determine where the organisation currently stands and what the road ahead should be. A lot was said about our DNA regarding the sustainability...

Daar’s gewigtige sake op die tafel

Graan SA se leierskap het in April vir so ’n paar dae tyd eenkant spandeer om te bepaal waar die organisasie tans is en waarheen ons op pad behoort te wees. Baie is gesê oor...

Positive attitude for way ahead eminent at Congress

Congress 2021 has just concluded – a virtual one at that. And what a change it was! I was sceptical whether our producers would sit behind a screen for so many hours to reflect...

Kongres spreek van positiewe gesindheid vir pad vorentoe

Kongres 2021 is so pas agter die rug – nogal ’n virtuele een. En was dit nie ’n verandering nie! Ek was skepties of ons produsente vir soveel ure agter ’n skerm sou sit...

Past the tipping point

During the end of January, I read a few articles and contemplated a number of events in the agricultural sector and society in general. It seems to me as if we have moved past...

Verby die kantelpunt

Hier aan die einde van Januarie het ek ’n paar artikels gelees en oor ’n klompie gebeure in die landbousektor en in die algemene samelewing nagedink. Dis vir my so al asof ons met...

The paradox of 2021

This year's stop-start beginning is making life difficult for everyone. People were still trying to relax on holiday after a tough 2020, when COVID’s ‘My fellow South Africans’ stopped us dead in our tracks...

Die paradoks van 2021

Vanjaar se stop-start begin maak die lewe vir almal moeilik. Mense was nog besig om vakansie te probeer hou na ’n taai 2020-jaar, toe laat COVID se “My fellow South Africans” ons weer in...

Voorwaarts, al is dit opdraand

Teen die tyd dat julle hierdie lees, behoort die Kaapse oes afgehandel en die noorde se oes geplant te wees. Is dit nie lekker dat die reën mooi betyds gekom het nie? ’n Beter begin...

Onward, even if it’s uphill

By the time you are reading this, the Cape harvest should be completed and the crops in the north should be planted. Isn’t it just great that the rain has come in time? We could...

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